Iakobwa Kabong could only walk on his knees and shuffle around on pieces of cardboard back on Christmas Island in Kiribati before he was admitted to Shriners Hospital for Children in Honolulu. And he didn’t have use of his hands. He would push himself forward on his knuckles and use the cardboard like a sled […]

Our intrepid heart team has returned home after seeing 177 patients in a week’s time on isolated Christmas Island in the central Pacific, where they identified nine needing life-saving surgery. Plans are underway now to bring the nine patients to Baylor Scott White Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas for surgery, says team leader cardiothoracic surgeon […]

Plans are now nearing completion for a comprehensive campaign to fight diabetes in the Line Islands of Kiribati, where adult onset rates are among the highest in the world… more than 30 per cent of adults suffer with Type 2 adult onset diabetes, according to results of our recent Pacific Islands Medical Aid studies. Our […]

Two of our intrepid Pacific Islands Medical Aid volunteer physicians have returned from two isolated islands in Kiribati in the Central Pacific where they identified 41 blind and nearly blind islanders needing cataract surgery and dispensed hundreds of pairs of long distance vision and reading glasses. Veteran PIMA volunteer physician and general surgeon Dr. Larry […]

Our advance eye surgery team, led by long-time Pacific Islands Medical Aid volunteer Dr. Larry Falk, M.D. , along with recently-retired ophthalmologist Dr. Jack F. Mason, M.D., has just returned from the isolated islands of Tabuaeran, Teraina and Kiritimati in the Central Pacific where they identified more than 50 islanders needing cataract surgery. In addition, […]

High rates of uterine cancer plague Pacific Island nations and threaten the lives of adult women who have no means of early detection or treatment. To help stem the tide and provide preventive treatment, our volunteer Women’s Health team has just completed it’s third mission to Christmas Island in the isolated island nation of Kiribati, […]

For the parents of 2 year old Iotua Nenetaake and Bwabwane Meeia, 10, it’s a dream come true that their children have been saved, thanks to the efforts of Pacific Islands Medical Aid, the leader of HeartGift Texas and heart surgeon Dr. Camile Hancock Friesen at Dell Childrens’ Medical Center of Central Texas in Austin. […]